The first system of writing was invented by the Sumerians. The main reason the Sumerians came up with this system was through necessity. A written language was required so that trade could be carried out between city-states. Transactions had to be recorded and it was vital for rulers governing a city-state to have a way

A detail of a relief of the Assyrian ruler, King Ashurnasirpal II, recovered from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal at Nimrud (Northern Iraq) by Austen Henry Layard and on display at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Tavola Mediterranea is the ultimate guide to culinary archaeology, ancient recipes, and food history on the net. Archaeologist, Farrell Monaco, offers recipes, cooking classes, cooking gadgets and more. Connect with your food-roots and start cooking it old school today!

An ancient clay tablet proves the Babylonians used complex mathematics to calculate the path of Jupiter. Scientists once thought this math technique was invented in medieval Europe.

Cuneiform and the advent of writing, astronomy, astrology, farming and religion. sumerian mythology and human history, Anunnaki, Planet X Nibiru, the great ...

Details of the Sumerian cuneiform script, the world's oldest writing system, and the Sumerian language.

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The History of Writing

An expert in deciphering cuneiform script, Dr Irving Finkel, has managed to piece together information on Noah's Ark from a 3,700-year-old clay tablet.

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This ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform activity is a fun hands-on history experience. Become ancient scribes writing on clay tablets with reeds.

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The Ancient Sumerians. It was at one time the fashion with many scholars to regard the civilization of the Babylonians as of a purely Semitic origin; ...

Sumer - Pergamon Museum in Berlin photographs.

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Our Study this year runs from Creation to the Greeks. We were learning about the first alphabet after Noah's Flood, which used shapes and pi...

Jar with Multilingual Inscriptions — Institute for the Study of the Ancient World | Produced in Egypt during the reign of the Persian king Xerxes (r. 486–465 BCE), this jar attests to the multilingual milieu that characterized Egypt before the arrival of the Ptolemies. Indeed, it is incised with the phrase “Xerxes the Great King” written in Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian (three Ancient Near Eastern languages that use a cuneiform alphabet), as well as Demotic and Hieroglyphs.